Tags: Programming Language.
In contexts of solar physics and data analysis ana is a somewhat whimsically named computer language that is designed for array processing and image data analysis. The name is an acronym for A Non Acronym. Ana began as a fork of an early version of IDL but has diverged significantly since then. It is in common use at the Lockheed-Martin Space Applications Laboratory and at institutions that analyze data from the TRACE spacecraft but is not commonly used elsewhere.